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Without the Oxford comma I read that as SiriusXM being "a religion and a biotech for starters", I was pretty confused until I red the article and realized my mistake.



But even with the comma there's still the intepretation of SiriusXM being a religion, right? (ESL speaker here; that's how I might interpret it.)


Yes, that is true. Short statements inside pairs of commas are sometimes parenthetical asides, descriptions of the previous term/expression.

All hail the ambiguity of the spoken word....


> All hail the ambiguity of the spoken word....

But this is actually about the (lesser, but still present) ambiguity of the written word.




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